Wade H. Kitchens

Wade Hampton Kitchens (born December 26, 1878 in Falcon , Nevada County , Arkansas , † August 22, 1966 in Magnolia , Arkansas) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1941 he represented the seventh constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Wade Kitchens was born on a farm near Falcon. He attended public schools in his home country, the Southern Academy and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville . After studying law at Cumberland University in Lebanon , he was admitted to the bar in 1900. His training was interrupted in 1898 by the Spanish-American War , in which Kitchens participated as a soldier in the US Army . Between 1900 and 1902 he was a soldier in the Philippines , where he was used to put down an uprising. He stayed in the Philippines until 1909, where he worked as a lawyer.

In 1909 he returned to Arkansas. He settled in Magnolia, where he practiced as a lawyer. Politically, Kitchens joined the Democratic Party . In 1910 and 1912 he was a delegate at their party congresses in Arkansas. During the First World War he was used as a captain in an infantry unit in Europe.

Between 1929 and 1933, Kitchens was an MP in the Arkansas House of Representatives . In the 1936 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in what was then the seventh constituency of the state , where he succeeded Tilman Bacon Parks on January 3, 1937 . After a re-election in 1938, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1941. He was not nominated again by his party for the 1940 elections. After his time in Congress, Kitchens retired from politics and returned to work as a lawyer.

Web links

• Wade H. Kitchens in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Wade H. Kitchens in the database of Find a Grave (English)